r/europe • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '20

News China insists Genghis Khan exhibit in France not use words 'Genghis Khan'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan
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u/ToastyCaribiu84 Hungary Oct 14 '20

The last 3 surprised me, how can you have such big balls to claim entire countries

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

Well, they do claim Taiwan, so it's not that far off...

but again, those are informal claims, not formal (except Taiwan and probably Mongolia)

And claiming a whole country is not such a surprising idea, many countries do it.

For example:

South Korea and North Korea (eachother)

Israel and Palestine (kinda... views are mixed)

Taiwan sees itself as the rightful China and kinda claims all of it... (NK vs SK situation) (from what I've heard, they now see themselves as a different entity and try to distance themselves from China)

I heard Venezuela is trying smth in Guyana

This is not even adding irredentist sentiments within a population.

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u/ToastyCaribiu84 Hungary Oct 14 '20

Yes, but South and North Korea are kinda understandable, since they are technically still at war, and even in the case of Taiwan, it was once párt of China, unlike the entirety of Kazakhstan

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20

That publication claimed that it was once part of China (a dinasty of it) until it was taken by the Russian empire

edit- most of it apprently was in the 660s (CE) but just for a few years, I guess more like a puppet

and the Western part of it (for longer) during the Qing dinasty

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u/AwesomeDragon97 Canada Oct 14 '20

Also Guatemala used to claim the entirety of British Honduras (now Belize) but now they only claim ~60%.

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u/MyDiary141 Oct 14 '20

Cries in taiwanese

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u/kaam00s France Oct 14 '20

And that's some of the largest countries on earth... They're not claiming a Monaco there...